Mount Ibu Erupts Again This Afternoon (Friday, August 8, 2025)
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Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on Friday (8/8/2025) at 1:23 PM WIT. In the last week, Mount Ibu has erupted 24 times.
According to eruption information from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) via the MAGMA Indonesia application, the height of the ash column was observed to be around None meters above the peak (None meters above sea level).
No visual eruption was observed. The eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 28 millimeters and a duration of 57 seconds.
(Read: Number of Earthquake Victims in Indonesia in 2020-2024)
According to the MAGMA Indonesia volcano activity report, the activity level of Mount Ibu is at Level II (Alert). Seismicity observations on August 8, 2025, from 00:00-23:59 WIT showed 98 eruption earthquakes with amplitudes of 12-28 millimeters and durations of 35-77 seconds.
Additionally, 3 exhalation earthquakes with amplitudes of 8-12 millimeters and durations of 37-52 seconds, and 19 harmonic earthquakes with amplitudes of 2-28 millimeters and durations of 32-437 seconds occurred.
PVMBG urges the public around Mount Ibu and visitors/tourists not to engage in activities within a 2-kilometer radius and a sectoral expansion of 3.5 kilometers towards the crater opening in the northern part of Mount Ibu's active crater.
Throughout 2025, MAGMA Indonesia has recorded 5,512 volcano eruptions across Indonesia. Mount Semeru in East Java had the most eruptions (2,206 times), while Mount Ibu erupted 2,040 times.
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